Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe

by Helen Lawton Smith and Erik Swyngedouw

This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities and national laboratories. It explores the contrasts and similarities between the patterns of formal and informal links in a technologically dynamic industry (electronic components) with those in a traditional industry (flow measurement) in the UK, France and Belgium. It uses evidence from interviews with firms, academics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033360458X
• ISBN13: 9780333604588
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"